The drivers, for their part, said nothing. Their silence intrigues me. It is obvious that they knew. Throughout all of our research, we have met very few people who transported Jews. The diggers, the fillers, even the sellers of stolen clothes will speak. Why do the transporters stay quiet? From experience, what usually engenders silence is the theft of belongings. Were the drivers compensated? Did they partake in pillaging at the time of the arrests? Or did they rob the Jews they carried? How to find out … ?
